Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:46:30 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Tor Egge <tegge@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_lookup.c Message-ID: <440F42A6.7000600@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <1539.1141850573@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1539.1141850573@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <440F3FAA.5090804@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: > > >>The only way to effectively avoid the problem would be to teach UFS to >>completely ignore the '.snap' directory entry when doing a readdir and >>lookup. That is not the same as what is being discussed with having a >>special hiiden hint flag. > > > Wouldn't that make it somewhat hard to actually access the snapshots ? > Sorry, I meant that the dirent would be surpressed from normal lookups and readdirs just just while it's unsafe to access it. Scotthelp
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